Bulgaria Slams Ukraine For Canceling the Status of Bulgarian Language

The Bulgarian government is dissatisfied with Ukraine's decision to cancel the recognition of Bulgarian language as regional language.

Earlier this week Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada canceled the State Language Policy Act, which was granting the status of “regional language” to the language of minority groups who make up more than 10% of the residents in an area.

Compact Bulgarian communities live in some areas of the Bessarabia region in southern Ukraine, mostly in Artsiz, Izmail and Bolgrad. There Bulgarian was granted the status of a regional language.

Another regional language in some parts of Ukraine was Russian.

Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin raised the language issue with Ukraine's ambassador in Sofia and at the meeting in Budapest of the Foreign Ministers of the Visegrad Group - Bulgaria, Romania and Greece.

“The current political leaders in Ukraine must demonstrate responsibility and strive for inclusion of all groups in the Ukrainian society with respect for human rights and the rule of law”, said Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry in a statement on its website.

The absolute majority of the ENTIRE Crimean people do not want to live in the state captured by the ultra-nationalists. And the WILL of that people is the Real Democracy.....with all due respect of that people to the "permanent members".

The UN security council has 5 permanent members (US, China, France, UK, and Russia). Each one of these also has veto power over any resolution. Russia was the only nation opposing the resolution. Do the math.

Behemoth the UN resolution against recognising the result of the Crimean referendum did not get through the UN Security Council that is the highest court in the world so there are no legal barriers to the referendum.

I know you had concerns about the legality of the referendum but you can now relax as it is legal.

When you point with one finger to other countries, Bulgaria, four fingers are pointing back to you.

That Bulgarian politicians have the guts (or mental vacuum) to ask other countries to grant Bulgarian language the status of a regional language is beyond my imagination.

Bulgaria has regions where more than 50% of the inhabitants speak Turkish as native language. But there is almost a civil war about a 3-minute emission in some radio station in Turkish language. What gives Bulgarian politicians the right to demand from other countries what they would never ever grant any minority in Bulgaria? Is this racism? Populism? Or just another proof for the fact that Bulgarian politicians are the most demented part of the Bulgarian population?

So, better shut up for the next 100 years, and don't you ever mention "minority rights" and "recognition as a regional language" ever again, Bulgarian politicians. People and countries like you shouldn't be taken seriously. By nobody on this planet. You are just the laughing stock of the rest of the nations. Pathetic, obnoxious, idiotic.